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Abstract

IBM has withdrawn the ODBC driver packages originally bundled for download with Information Server Version 8.7 Fix Pack 1, on all supported platforms.

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IBM has discovered that an issue exists with the ODBC driver packages originally included with Fix Pack 1 for Information Server Version 8.7. This issue may cause Information Server processes using ODBC to fail with a core dump instead of properly returning a message when an ODBC error condition occurs. The affected packages are listed here, by platform:

Platform

Download package name

AIX

IBMrios64-61-odbc61-120223.tar.Z

HP-IA

HPia64-61-odbc61-120224.tar.Z

Linux 32-bit

LINUX32-61-odbc61-120223.tar.gz

Linux 64-bt

LINUX64-61-odbc61-120224.tar.gz

Solaris

Solaris64-61-odbc61-120223.tar.Z

Windows

WINNT32-odbc61-20120224.zip

zLinux

LINUXZ-61-odbc61-120223.tar.gz

Note: If you have removed the package file, or you are not sure which drivers are installed, you can verify by examining the contents of the fixes.txt file. If the release date information near the top of this file matches the following, then you have an affected driver package.

Release 6.1.2
February 20, 2012

The default locations for the fixes.txt file are as follows:

Unix and Linux

/opt/IBM/InformationServer/Server/branded_odbc/fixes.txt

Windows

C:\IBM\InformationServer\ODBCDrivers\fixes.txt

Reverting to a previous driver set on Windows Platforms Note: Reverting the drivers will not affect your existing DSNs. This procedure should be followed on each Engine tier computer, and any client tier computer where the ODBC drivers were upgraded.

Download the ODBC 6.1 driver set using the download link for windows below.

Stop all Information Server programs.

Unzip the driver set and run the installer.

Reboot if requested by the installation utility.

Restart all Information Server programs.

Reverting to a previous driver set on Unix and Linux Platforms. Note: Reverting the drivers will not affect your existing DSNs. This procedure should be followed on each Engine tier computer.

From a backup directory:

The instructions for installing ODBC drivers recommend that you backup your existing drivers by renaming the branded_odbc directory. If you made this backup of the original drivers that were installed with the 8.7 GA release you can restore these drivers with the following procedure

Stop all Information Server programs on this computer

Remove or rename the current branded_odbc directory.

Rename the backed-up directory to 'branded_odbc'

Restart all Information Server programs.

Reinstall the drivers

If you did not make a backup of the original ODBC driver set, you can download them from Fix Central and then reinstall as described in the following steps:

Download the ODBC 6.1 driver set using the download link for unix/linux below.

Stop all Information Server Programs on this computer

Extract the downloaded drivers and follow the installation instructions in the readme file.